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| Adam Schiff Calls His First Public Witnesses And It Tells Us Everything |
| 2019-11-07 |
| Public hearings are finally about to begin in Adam Schiff’s "impeachment inquiry" and he’s called his first three witnesses. Who he’s choosing to march out first tells you everything about the game the Democrats are trying to play. The names? Bill Taylor, Marie Yovanovitch, and George Kent. The problem? Not a single one of these "witnesses" had any direct line to Donald Trump at all. None of them received any order from the President to do anything, by their own admission. Further, nothing in their previous testimony pointed to them having any secondary knowledge of an improper quid pro quo involving Joe Biden. What these witnesses do provide is political fodder. Take Bill Taylor. Despite admitting the only evidence he had for his impressions was an article in The New York Times, he testified that he felt an improper quid pro quo was taking place. ...Former Amb. Marie Yovanovitch is another witness big on flash but low on relevancy. Her only use to Schiff is to proclaim she felt targeted by Trump and that he wanted her out of her position (something well within her power Trump's authority?). In her past testimony, she says she had no knowledge of any quid pro quo arrangement, so what is she going to actually add of value? ...As for George Kent, his contribution is to claim he was sidelined from policy altogether, which is apparently impeachable because bureaucrats run the country or something. ...But more importantly, notice the names not on the list to headline this thing. Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland. Why not have the people most closely connected with Trump, who would possibly know of any official decree, testify instead of a bunch of people repeating assumptions and hearsay? The answer is that they didn’t give Schiff what he wanted. Sondland revised his testimony this week to say he felt a quid pro quo (but not even necessarily an improper one) was "likely," but also admitted it was pure presumption on his part. He testified he was given no order regarding the matter and had no idea why the aid was actually on hold. Volker, who was the closet up the chain to Trump, has point blank said there was no improper arrangement to his knowledge. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Plan? What plan? Step 1: Subpoena witnesses and indict them for "process crimes" Step 2: Scream Corruption! leading up to the general elections. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-11-07 21:44 |
| #5 Plan? What plan? Step 1: Plant info and charges against Trump Step 2: Start hearings Step 3: ?????? Step 4: Impeach!!!! Step 5: President Pelosi!!!! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-11-07 20:43 |
| #4 They're just expressing their feelings - because feelings are important! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-07 15:42 |
| #3 Plan? What plan? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-07 15:39 |
| #2 Thinking the same thing MM, what with the timing of this and all. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-11-07 09:00 |
| #1 It almost looks like the plan is to draw attention away from the dem primaries. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-07 06:04 |